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From: TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business>
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On 2025-01-04 15:48, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> And humans have had other effects, such as environmental degradation,
> extinction of species due to over-hunting, eating up all the local nutritious
> vegetation like a swarm of locusts.
> 
I'm not quite sure how an extinct species can eat up all the local 
nutritious vegetation, but then I'm just a simple farmer who doesn't 
understand the way of things.

I can understand that natural climate change has claimed many species 
that couldn't adapt, while species that *could* adapt have flourished. 
Dinosaurs and mammals are the classic examples from the distant past.

But species can adapt to manmade climate change, as well. Take the 
whitetail deer, for example. 100 years ago, give or take, hunting 
decreased the population in many areas, including where I live, to very 
low numbers. But regulations were changed, fewer deer were hunted, and 
many adapted to the new situation. Many learned how to live among 
people, in urban and suburban areas where they wouldn't be hunted.

So now, the deer population is many times higher than the habitat can 
support, even out here in a rural area. And, it's getting larger every 
year despite increased hunting pressure. There was a time when deer 
damage to my crops was negligible, something I could just live with. 
Now, they have been known to destroy the whole crop.

Wolves, who used to help keep deer populations in check, were hunted to 
extinction because they also attacked livestock. But, as usually 
happens, another, more adaptable predator moved in to take their place - 
coyotes. The coyotes don't usually attack livestock, at least around 
here, but they do control the sick and injured deer, leaving the healthy 
ones to breed. Come to think of it, perhaps the coyotes leave the 
livestock alone because there a plenty of deer to eat...

TJ